An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.

One reason writers write is out of revenge.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

Old saws have no teeth.