Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.