Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Character is plot, plot is character.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.