Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.