Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.