We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

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.

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

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.