The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition

Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.