And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

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

Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

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

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.