How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

I will say further, as an officer of an enormous international conglomerate, that nobody who is doing well in this economy ever even wonders waht is really going on.We are chimpanzees. We are orangutans.

This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.