I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.

In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.