You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

The sentence im reading is terrific.

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment or peace, instead or money or prestige or game or any of those things, doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else. If anything, I'm more so!

Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.