The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

Civilization begins with distillation

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.