I often feel like a camel in the mountains, and a goat in the desert. Ah, but that’s life, no?

“You don’t have to tell me why, if you tell me why you won’t tell me why. Or at …”

“I like the New York Times. I only wish it were softer, and more like toilet pap…”

“With the money I spend on alcohol, I could support a family of four, assuming t…”

“I want to be a man of letters. All 26 of them.”