Mark

“Everyone carries a room about inside him.”
― Franz Kafka

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer or just a victim of a literary home environment.”
― John Fowles, The Ebony Tower. Eliduc. The Enigma

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence.”
― Irving Howe, A Critic's Notebook