I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.