“It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.”

“If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.”

“His forty-third year. His small time's end. His time-Who saw Infinity through the countless cracksIn the blank skin of things, and died of it.”

“History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...”

“T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us.The sound was brutal.Final.”

“Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first”

“Dad brought it home from Paris when Terese was five. What other kid that age had a $10,000 oboe?”