... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.