I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.

Literature usually begets literature.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.