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 best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

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

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

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

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.