You have to be lonely to be a writer

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.

When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.