Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God.

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.