Writing Is Making Sense Of Life.

People Give One Another Things That Can't Be Gift Wrapped.

The Tension Between Standing Apart, And Being Fully Involved; That Is What Makes A Writer.

Your Whole Life You Are Really Writing One Book, Which Is An Attempt To Grasp The Consciousness Of Your Time And Place– A Single Book Written From Different Stages Of Your Ability.

Can You Imagine A Writer In England Influencing? Absolutely Not. And In France? It Used To Be, But No More-absolutely Not. France Used To, At Least, Have Writers As Diplomats, But Not Any More.

Nothing Fades So Quickly As What Is Unchanged.