I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn'tknow it until later.

You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed.