Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

See the moon? It hates us.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.