Each servant stamps the reader with a look.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.

Each servant stamps the reader with a look.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and the way that we get knowledge from them, through television, old movies, which I watch a lot of. Lines of dialogue suddenly seem to be part of a poem.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—