Plot is the knowing of destination.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.

Dogs are a habit, I think.

life is a succession of readjustments.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.