smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.
I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.