As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.