All I know is a door into the dark

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.