All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.