I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of...

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of...

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale...

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale...

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to...

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to...

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.