There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.
The images of things are not the things in themselves.
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.
Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.
I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.