Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.