If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves.

Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.