A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?