I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised