All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

The future belongs to crowds.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.