With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect to go. That’s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say ‘a ha,’ and you write it down. A lot of it is not planned, not conscious; it happens while you’re doing it. You know more about it after you’re done.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.