The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.
I am the worst judge of my books.
That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.
I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
The secret of survival is a defective imagination.