Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing."

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.