Iām thirty,ā I said. āIām five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor
Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.
It takes two to make an accident.
Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.