It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.
There are no friends; only moments of friendship.
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.