As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.

Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and even if the interpretation is not available, the experience of language is.

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.

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