For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

For the truth is a terrible thing.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.

In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.