“Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.”
“There's nothing so magnificent - for making others feel you - as to have no imagination.”
“Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day – for a bit, anyhow.”
“You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?”
“You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.”