Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.

What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains, each link locked into the one before it, the theorems and functions, one thing making the next inevitable. It's music, hanging there in the middle of space, meaning nothing but itself, and so moving...'

Fraud makes the world go round.

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.