I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live.

I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

That's what perfect means. You're finished.

That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears.

I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.