The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.