She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.

Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.

I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

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.