Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.