The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

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

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

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Everything we do has consequences.