Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.