In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom.

and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, that the glories, if I may call them that, which I had loved so much and that had been darkened in my fall, were shinning even brighter and nearly everytime subsequently I have fallen and darkness has come over me, they have obstinately arisen, not as they were, but brighter.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.

Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.