A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
Where to look if you've lost your mind?
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering.
Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.
Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.
It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.