Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.