The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place--the picture of it--stays, and not just in my remory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head. I mean, even if I don't think if, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there. Right in the place where it happened.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.

I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway.

Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.