Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Leave your past and live for today

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average.

And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

The visible world only becomes the real world by the operation of thought

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

If America leads a blessed life, then why did God put all of our oil under people who hate us?

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.