And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.

Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.