Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.
One can lie, but truth is more interesting.
But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.
Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.
The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.
Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?
One's palate is reborn every morning!
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.
I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved for the dullard. It is the very opposite of creation, which is play… The part of me which was given up to work, which enabled my wife and child to live in the manner which they unthinkingly demanded, this part of me which kept the wheel turning - a completely fatuous, ego-centric notion! - was the least part of me. I gave nothing to the world in fulfilling the function of breadwinner; the world exacted its tribute of me, that was all.