Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.
Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.
Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.
I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.
Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other.
I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.