She's a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.

As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself

The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive

Why is such a bad thing to die?

Glory to the Great God of wonders!

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

A color is as strong as the impression it creates.

When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.

There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.