As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

I think the writer has to be responsible to signs and dreams. If you don't do anything with it, you lose it.

Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.

It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.

One writes to find words' meanings.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.