Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

The way you live your days is the way you live your life.

Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.

Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.

I had been chipping at the world idly, and had by accident uncovered vast and labyrinthine further worlds within it.

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.