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.

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.