You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.

“No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful …”

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”

“I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction…”

“I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. …”