“People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.”

“Self-pity is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.”

“Do you realize how angry you sound? must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.”

“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers pho...”

“Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The ...”

“My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mindlike preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.”

“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”

“Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.”

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”