As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.