One reason writers write is out of revenge.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

The ordinary is the divine.