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.

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

It's a terrible poison, writing.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.