All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago.
Here is the piece. If you can’t say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
A cat has absolute honesty.
He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.
Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do.
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation.
You’ll lose it, if you talk about it.
I was blown up while we were eating cheese.
Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.
Work could cure almost anything.
Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.
When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.
Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye – that was the trouble – I wanted to kiss you good night – and there’s a lot of difference.