Writing books is the closest men ever come to child bearing,

Writing a novel is the closest thing a male writer will ever get to the experience of childbirth.

Books are the nearest thing to a time machine humans have ever made.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life.

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too.

A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

Because a book is a life, like one man is a life.

Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.

Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.

Man’s main task is to give birth to himself.