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

In my dreams I ate and I ate my dreams.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

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

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.