All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.