A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

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.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

But did thee feel the earth move?

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.