People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another.

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be.

In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates.