If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead. - V. S. Naipaul

But this is madness. I am going in the wrong direction. There can’t be a new life at the end of this.

I also bought a copy of The New York Times, the previous day's issue of which I had seen the previous day in Puerto Rico. I was interested in newspapers and knew this paper to be one of the foremost in the world. But to read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself. It made me feel a stranger, that paper.

Everywhere else men are in movement, the world is in movement, and the past can only cause pain.