A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.
Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.
... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
First drafts are for learning what your story is about.
Children were strangers you loved because you could love. If they gave back love when they were grown you were ahead of the game.