自己
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
I don't think I'm a writer who's interested in answers. I'm interested in questions.
The purpose of fiction is to take you out of your own life and make you aware of other lives.
Lonely people have their own bog.
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do—we do it all the time.
There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
We always use poetic language to describe our embarrassment in the cracks of youth.