One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

So that individuation may be compared to a pyramid in that it is only achieved by the placement of the top stone… The Jews, Ford said. They ain't like anyone else I know. There goes you theory up shits creek. He smiled.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.