As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them?
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.