You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

Dear girl! Life is addictive. Yet we must live.

celebrate while you can

It's hard to say how we compare to other people. We each inhabit our own personalities. I have often felt that I'm a very neutral being and that I have almost no personality. I'm drawn to writing partly because I'm fascinated by the mimetic process.

I think what distresses me most in my life is that I have so many ideas I consider exciting ideas that I will never live to execute because it takes me so long to execute.