The impossible is the least that one can demand.
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.
One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.