A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.