I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.