The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.
I can't claim to be disenchanted "with the current state of fiction" because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.
Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.
We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.