Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
“But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.”
“Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.”