Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer..

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change..

Dresscodes are for styleless people..

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real..

The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Siftin….

You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollo….

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. It's wrong to say "everybody," but in literature I see it all the ti….

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opp….

Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ….

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that..

They are travelling cheaply, with that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources. They live in Levis and su….

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality..

The normal economic system works itself..

Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing p….

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality..

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest..

To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortuna….

You write for glory. You play for glory. There's an ambition to excel, isn't there, to be a star? To score more, to do more, even when it's a team sp….

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assembl….

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish..

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling..