But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?

we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.