A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

Wow. This makes grand central look like a bus stop in Buttfuck Nebraska.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.