Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before.

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.