Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.