The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room.

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.