I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.