“Hadn't one of my all-time favorite reveries been to become a cranky hermit, live unperturbed in my house, and have things brought to me like a monarch or tribal lord?”

Source: Running with Scissors

“My Own Four Walls” (c. 1825)
1820s

Mock the Week

The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: My favorite writers have been those who’ve said things well. I used to study Eudora Welty. She has the remarkable ability to give you atmosphere, character, and motion in a single line. In one line! You must study these things to be a good writer. Welty would have a woman simply come into a room and look around. In one sweep she gave you the feel of the room, the sense of the woman’s character, and the action itself. All in twenty words. And you say, How’d she do that? What adjective? What verb? What noun? How did she select them and put them together? I was an intense student.

Source: Arbus, Diane, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, 1972, Aperture, New York, 978-0912334400, https://archive.org/details/dianearbus00arbu] source: Arbus, Diane. Diane Arbus. Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1972. ISBN 0-912334-40-1. source: DeCarlo, Tessa (May 2004).

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-fresh-look-at-diane-arbus-99861134/ "A Fresh Look at Diane Arbus". Smithsonian magazine. Retrieved December 13, 2017.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910470,00.html "Art: to Hades with Lens". Time, November 13, 1972. Retrieved February 12, 2010.

Blood Meridian (1985)

Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 49, Henry Chinaski

Press conference (5 September 1972), also quoted in Paranoia & Power : Fear & Fame of Entertainment Icons (2007) by Gene N Landrum, p. 60

Caruso
Gulf Winds (1976)