To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
