My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.