Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

One does not remember the winners. One remains haunted by the losers.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

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.

Things are not what they seem.

I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.