I'm unemployable in any other capacity.

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

To function efficiently – to function at all – we must concentrate our effects. Picturing things is bad for business, it is undynamic. It can choke the mind with horror if persisted in. We have graphs and tables and balance sheets and statement of corporate philosophy to help us remain busily and safely in the realm of the abstract and comfort us with a sense of lawful endeavor and lawful profit. And we have maps.

There are no stronger fetters than those we forge for ourselves.

Justice is a mighty fine thing.

Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...

The kneading of memory makes the dough of fiction, which, as we know, can go on yeasting for ever...

I glimpsed the man’s face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full meed of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

I knew little of the world, as the Justice had seen, but I knew that we can lose ourlseves in the parts we play and if this continues too long we will not find our way back again.

A man may go through life and remain ignorant of himself he may think himself as other than he truly is and he may die with this illusion still intact because no circumstance of his life has obliged him to revise it.