To Travel Is To Shop.

The Writer Is Either A Practicing Recluse Or A Delinquent, Guilt-ridden One--or Both. Usually Both.

A Great Writer Has All 4 - But You Can Still Be A Good Writer With Only 1 And 2.

[on Marriage:] It Is An Institution Committed To The Dulling Of The Feelings.

I Was Fascinated By Quotations And Lists. And Then I Noticed That Other People Were Fascinated By Quotations And Lists: People As Different As Borges And Walter Benjamin, Novalis And Godard.

You Can Include Essay Elements In Fiction; This Is A Very Nineteenth Century Practice.