A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.

Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.