Nice: meaning I’m going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them – to you.
I guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday.
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that’s proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn’t a game for knights.
The challenge is to write about real things magically.
She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.
Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
Shake your business up and pour it. I don’t have all day.
A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose’s lime juice and nothing else.
I’m all done with hating you. It’s all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don’t hate them very long.
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
She was kind of girl who’d eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.
Tall, aren’t you? I didn’t mean to be.
She had eyes like strange sins.