<p>For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.</p>

<p>There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession$$$ which is to write even when you don't want to$$$ don't much like what you're writing$$$ and aren't writing particularly well.</p>

<p>She saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.</p>

<p>The past was irretrievable$$$ the league of lonely men a fiction$$$ the pursuit of the past a doomed attempt to run a hustle on mortality.</p>

<p>Even if it is the dream made flesh$$$ the real$$$ once it becomes real$$$ can be no more than real.</p>

<p>You might just as well say$$$ that I like what I get is the same thing as I get what I like!</p>

<p>A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.</p>

<p>To be interesting$$$ be interested.</p>

<p>Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.</p>

<p>The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.</p>