Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie. Ordinary professionalism and twenty years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. That still needs what it always needs - a condition of complete simplicity, costing not less than everything.

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

Language is a finding place, not a hiding place.