And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

The past is obdurate.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.