I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.