Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?