Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Take down the walls.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.

I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits

My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.