An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted. - Arthur Miller

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water — that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.