I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.