The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!