Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

Dad is always hiding in his book.

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.