Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

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.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.