I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.