If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.