For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.

Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.

You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.

I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let other people speak... to travel... to experience the world. And memorialize it.

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.