“Rape, pillage, plunder, gouge, extort, and beat... your imagination. ”

“...at some point you need to stop looking out at others and start looking inward, at yourself, at your own accomplishments, at your own foibles, at your own successes and your own failures. It's only when you begin to look inward that you can begin to have an effect on those out there, the ones with the greedy eyes and outstretched hands.”

“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”

“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.”

“And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”