It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

You are either born a writer or you are not.

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.