We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and---from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone. . .the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.