Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

What a lark! What a plunge!

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.

I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.

To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.