“I wondered if Olympus had gone to a commercial break, or if our ratings had been any good.”

“Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.”

“This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.”

“In the end, I think that I will like that we were sitting on the bed, talking & wondering where the time had gone.”

“At any rate I found myself writing because I had to write, although I didn’t know why.”

“There had been a human soul in that skull only a few hours earlier, and now no authority in the universe could bring her back. We were like monkeys sitting around a fire that had just extinguished, wondering why the warmth and light had gone away.”

“I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.”

“At that point I realized that I had been thinking in Russian. It’s a wonderful language for paranoid thoughts.”

“I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.”

“The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because it happened to be recondite.”