Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.