Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits.

Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.