The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.