When A Culture Feels That Its End

Christianity Has Enriched The Erotic Meal With The Appetizer Of Curiosity And Spoiled It With The Dessert Of Remorse.

The Closer The Look One Takes At A Word, The Greater Distance From Which It Looks Back.

Psychoanalysis Is The Mental Illness It Purports To Cure

A Good Writer Does Not Receive Anywhere Near The Number Of Poison-pen Letters That Is Commonly Assumed. Among A Hundred Jackassesthere Are Not Ten Who Will Admit To Being Jackasses, And At Most One Who Will Put It In Writing.

To Write A Novel May Be Pure Pleasure. To Live A Novel Presents Certain Difficulties. As For Reading A Novel, I Do My Best To Get Out Of It.