Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.
We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay.
And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.