You see in others who you are.

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

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

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

Where to look if you've lost your mind?