Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.
You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.