Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.

A desert is a place without expectation.

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.