The telephone is a great knee-jerk machine, but if you really want to tell someone how you feel, you need the slowness of the letter. In a society where everything is fast, it's like going out in the country and looking up at the stars.

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows