All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.

A cat only has itself.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.