Paranoids Are The Only Ones Who Notice

In An Age Like Ours, Which Is Not Given To Letter-writing, We Forget What An Important Part It Used To Play In People's Lives.

Sex Almost Always Disappoints Me In Novels. Everything Can Be Said Or Done Now, And That's What I Often Find: Everything, A Feeling Of Generality Or Dispersal. But In My Experience, True Sex Is So Particular, So Peculiar To The Person Who Yearns For It. Only He Or She, And No One Else, Would Desire So Very Much That Very Person Under Those Circumstances. In Fiction, I Miss That Sense Of Terrific Specificity.

The First Divorce In The World May Have Been A Tragedy, But The Hundred-millionth Is Not Necessarily One.

Paranoids Are The Only Ones Who Notice Things Anymore.

When Friends Stop Being Frank And Useful To Each Other, The Whole World Loses Some Of Its Radiance.