“She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.”

“Brett was damned good-looking. She wore a slip-over jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's. She started all that. She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht, and you missed none of it with that wool jersey.”

“She's vicious,' Miss Stein said. 'She's truly vicious, so she can never be happy except with new people. She corrupts people.”

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”

“None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.”

“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”