I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.

You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.