The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.