I think my mother was very spiritual.

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.

My father was very outwardly religious.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.