That's not writing, that's typing

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie pawing earth over her bone - just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes.

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.