If You Would Learn A Thing, Straightway

Choosing Is Existence. To The Extent That You Don't Choose, You Don't Exist.

One Of The Things I Miss About Teaching Is That Students Would Tell Me What I Ought To Read. One Of My Students, Back In The 1960s, Put Me Onto Borges, And I Remember Another Mentioning Flann O'brien's At Swim Two-birds In The Same Way.

I Admire Writers Who Can Make Complicated Things Simple, But My Own Talent Has Been To Make Simple Things Complicated.

The First Obligation Of The Writer Is To Be Interesting. To Be Interesting; Not To Change The World.

Nobody Knew How To Be What They Were Right.