One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.