To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.

Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.

I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

All artists are two-headed calves.

our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.