It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country

A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.

I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.

Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.