It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.

I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.

We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.

I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.

…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.