I guess there are never enough books.

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.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.