There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

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

A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the writing goes so smoothly that I don't take a break for many hours - and consequently have breakfast at two or three in the afternoon on good days.