There Is Only One World

I Am Never Happier Than When I Am Alone In A Foreign City; It Is As If I Had Become Invisible.

There Is Only One World The World Pressing Against You This Minute.

If The Novel Is Dying, I See No Chance That Dismembering It Will Revive It.

Writers Sometimes Talk As Though They Were The Only Friends Of Civilization. This Is Their Conceit. But They Have Special Powers To Serve -- Or To Corrupt -- Civilization, And Are Obliged To Use Them.

To Grow Old Is To Have Taken Away, One By One, All Gifts Of Life, The Food And Wine, The Music And The Company. ... The Gods Unloose, One By One, The Mortal Fingers That Cling To The Edge Of The Table.