Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.

life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.