Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.”
“When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.”