One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

Lord, why did you leave me in these woods?

To write has to be related to a drive inside.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.