The world is full of places to which I want to return

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

The world is full of places to which I want to return