A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.

My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

It was evident to him that the world composed and recomposed itself constantly in an endless process of dissatisfaction.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.