For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.

Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.