A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Be respectful of words. They mean something.