Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

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.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

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

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.