I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.