The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

One of the satisfactions of fiction, or drama, or poetry from the perpetrator's point of view is the selective order it imposes upon the confusion of a lived l…

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.