You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. - Saul Bellow

Instead I often felt unusually light and swift-paced, as if I were on a weightless bicycle and sprinting through the star world.

"Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good.