George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover] 'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies, two flabby bodies naked. It's harmless, really - different strokes for different folks.
After the editing room, I go and take a nap. I'm not in the practice of writing, and I feel like I'm flabby, and I have to start arriving at the desk every day, and take off one hat and put on another one. So I'm starting, but it's very sloooow.
Only I look too soft and flabby
For the time being I have seen enough of living things, of dogs, of men, of all flabby masses which move spontaneously.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
My pessimism has never been flabby.
If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
