Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Everyone these days is concerned so much with privacy and forgets the value of human touch. We still need each other but are scared of how it might sound or appear to the other.

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?

The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman's dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed.

I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.

I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.

A sympathy in choice.