I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

Usage ain't always a matter of ought.

The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.

I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.