A cat only has itself.
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
Writers should provoke disagreement.
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.