I Try To Avoid Purple Patches, Fine

What A Writer Wants To Do Is Not What He Does.

People Think That I've Committed Myself To Idealism, To Solipsism, Or To Doctrines Of The Cabala, Because I've Used Them In My Tales. But Really I Was Only Trying To See What Could Be Done With Them. On The Other Hand, It Might Be Argued That If I Use Them It's Because I Was Feeling An Affinity To Them. Of Course, That's True.

His Life, Measured In Space And Time, Will Take Up A Mere Few Lines, Which My Ignorance Will Abbreviate Further.

To Arrange A Library Is To Practice In A Quiet And Modest Way The Art Of Criticism.

Thus My Life Is A Flight And I Lose Everything And Everything Belongs To Oblivion, Or To Him.