To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

They make me...they make me think of being stuck somewhere? I don't know, like weighted down, but then these patches...

The value of routine

Don’t let them see you weak.

Discovery Cancels Emotional Scars

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

I do not love fiction, I love history.

Au revoir, pidgeon. Sweeting is such part sorrow.

There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described...I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those.