A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.