An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.