You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

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

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