Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

For me, places have a tremendous impact. I fall in love with places. All of life seems different in different places.

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

Every moment must be first known and then savored.

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.