Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

You see in others who you are.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

How can we be strangers if we both believe in God?

All men are Jews, though few men know it.

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.