Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the same way more than once, twice, or another number of times however much you may wish to hold, wrap, or otherwise fix her hand, or look, or some other quality, or incident, known to you previously.