Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything