I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.