Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.