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

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just need time, as I've learned over and over again. You've got to wait before you write about them.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive.