I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

Give me an honest con man any day.

She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

The sentence im reading is terrific.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.