I suspect victims; they win in the long run.

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.