I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.