The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.