Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.
Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
I am a book I neither wrote nor read.
Even paranoids have real enemies.
I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.