I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.