A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.