We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.