Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.