There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

Nationality isn't soul.

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.