The task of the writer is to confront the chaos of existence and to find some kind of order within it.
The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
The artist must be a servant of the mystery.
I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.