Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

Passion is our ground, our island - do others exist?

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.