There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

Life is a state of mind.