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

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

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

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

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

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