Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

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

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.