I Write To Try To Understand, And

Anyone Who Gets Up Early By Inclination Or Has Been Forced To Rise Early Out Of Necessity Finds It Intolerable That Others Should Go On Sleeping Soundly

Reading Is Probably Another Way Of Being In A Place.

We Are So Afraid Of The Idea Of Having To Die... That We Always Try To Find Excuses For The Dead, As If We Were Asking Beforehand To Be Excused When It Is Our Turn.

That Is The Dream Of All Novelists-that One Of Their Characters Will Become 'somebody.'

Writer's Make National Literature, While Translators Make Universal Literature.