When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
Are you pro- or anti-macassar?
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.
Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.
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.