Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.

The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.

You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.