Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

You see in others who you are.

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

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

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.