Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.