I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.

Plot is the knowing of destination.

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.