In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.
The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.