The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.