You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back.