We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.