Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial

All those layers of silence upon silence.

If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.