The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

Love is the outlaw's duty.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

I wish I had more time to write.