If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they're really good. And there's just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that's the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there's going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don't care whether it's art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don't think so.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing.

Teaching writing is a hustle.