People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.
The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.
One place understood helps us understand all places better
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.