I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?