These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
Music’s a wood you walk through.
This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.