I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did