I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
Memory feeds imagination.
Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.