Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.