I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

For common minds have an ugly ability to perceive in the deepest and richest saying nothing but their own everyday opinion.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Heroism is not to be won at the point of a pen.

The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.