To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives.