That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself.

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

A writer's work is the product of laziness.