Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.