I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.