If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'
Life is first boredom, then fear.
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.
What will survive of us is love.