Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.
[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.
But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.