The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.