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.

You see in others who you are.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

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

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.

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

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.