I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is gett...ing all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.- men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep- hole and missing laundry list school.... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The drama critic on your paper said my chablis-tinted hair was like a soft halo over wide set, inviting eyes, and my mouth, my mou...th was a lush tunnel through which golden notes came.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good ...copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice fo...r the one we lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some women, when they kiss, blush, some call the cops, some swear, some bite, some laugh, some cry. Me? I die. Die. I die inside w...hen you kiss me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »