Anonymity is suspect — credible people sign their work.

Anonymity is cowardly — an anonymous pen is a coward's weapon, which stabs in the dark.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

Anonymity is often a ruse. An anonymous gift is a donation by someone who hopes everyone will find out without his telling them.

Attention is everything -- If you never noticed, it never happened.

Attention is decisive. What holds attention determines action.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Attention is vitality — It connects one with others and makes one eager.

Authenticity is that which the writer should aim at. Never originality.

Authenticity is a prerequisite for love. Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

Authenticity is not a condition that has been detached from the 'they'; it is rather an existentiell modification of the 'they', it is about finding a different way of relating to others such that one is not lost to the they-self.

Authenticity is always repeating inherited possibility.

Authorship is an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

Authorship is a violent and indestructible obsession.

Authorship is overrated. It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

Authorship is part and parcel of the work itself: a poem is often good until one knows who wrote it.