I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.