I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.

I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.