"It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own."
- Louis Zukofsky
"The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words."
"This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it."
"This time it was the sentence opening the last part of a story I had worked on for months: a sentence as is often worked off paper first. The pace of narrative and interest in character do not readily..."
"Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition."