“...the authors he has himself discovered are his own exclusive territory, like the saloon compartment of a special train.”

“The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself”

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”

“…no industrial designer worth his salt, or our attention, has been trained to work exclusively on any particular product, unless by accident. What he has been trained to do is practice a process called design, a process that includes esthetic choices but does not consist only of them.”

“Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.”