“Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.”
“The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend. ”
“good call. A second drag and your next stop's the wastepaper basket - and not to toss your kleenex, true.”
“He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and torn places, the shining bark of the wet trees all around. He could not think of any prayers now. But every movement felt like a kind of adoration.”
“I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.”
“The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.”