I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember