[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.