I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere.

“Do you take pride in your hurt?” Samuel asked. “Does it make you seem large and tragic?” “I don't know.” “Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.