The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.