Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.

Women and elephants never forget.

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.