 I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. |
| For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. |
| That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before. |
| Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants. |
| Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? |
| Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for. |
| Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. |
| Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. |
