Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

Warren Cox, God knew, was no prize; a commercial person, a sales person, the kind of man who said things like "x numbers of dollars". At lunch today, laboriously trying to explain some business procedure, he had said "x number of dollars" three times.

She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want