The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
“Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.”
“His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.”