The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.