The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.

You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.