It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts.

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.