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

You have to be lonely to be a writer

Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.