New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

Character is plot, plot is character.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.