A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

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

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.