Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.