Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.

I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race as almost everyone else... It is true that I noticed things that no one else seemed to notice. And I think only people who are outsiders do this.