For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.

To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.

Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned.

Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.