1904 – 1999 • American • Writer
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
