I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.