For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".

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

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

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