What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.