Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing. - Saul Bellow

The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in return for docility or ingenuous good will they were to be shielded from the worst brutalities in life.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.