Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.