I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.

In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Religion is the opium of the poor.