“One who transmuted things from formlessness and shapelessness into that-which-was-not-real, but without which the real would have no meaning”
“…I’d have died without them [books]. Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.”
“One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness . . . which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.”
“I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.”
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”