Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

In my dreams, I never have an age.

Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.