It took a while to tell but it hadn’t taken all that long to live;
I told Carolyn it was a great day for running, and she told me there was no such thing.
For my own part, I'd never live with anyone, male of female. I have trouble enough living with myself.
As my grandmother used to say, if you've got nothing good to say about someone, let's hear it.
—And I won't deny your neighbors will take you more seriously if you tell them you've written a novel. (Of course if that's the main concern, just go and tell them. You don't have to write anything. J...
Attract attention. And if they did get out a cry,
Your mother loves to perform fellatio upon syphilitic dogs.
When I was a kid, buying packets and penny approvals and filling spaces in my Modern Stamp Album, nothing was easier to find and to afford than those German issues. Think of it, a stamp that cost fift...
Tomorrow’s always there, just over the horizon. Until the tomorrows run out.
They’ve transformed the weather into some sort of celestial crap game.
The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on. Nor all your piety and wit Can call it back to cancel half a line Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.
Nobody’d believe a story like yours except a dyke who shaves dogs.
My crime seemed destined to remain a secret forever.
Life, I'd heard someone say, is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. It seemed to me that it was both at once, even for those of us who don't do much of either.
Keller sat in his hotel room with his purchases on the desk in front of him, pleased with what he’d acquired and the bargain prices he’d paid, but a little bit anxious at having spent so much money. H...
If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.
I stood for a moment, letting my ears do the walking, and then I gave the bell a thorough ring and waited thirty thoughtful seconds before ringing it again.And that, let me assure you, is not a waste...
I see, I said, which is something I very often say when I don’t.
I find him whelming, personally. Neither overwhelming nor underwhelming but somewhere in the middle.