It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.
I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.
I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.
If you don't have a vision, you can never be focused in a direction.
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.
I've been an athlete all my life. I was a competitive figure skater, and then when I realized skating was not an adult sport I took up tennis and played that quite seriously from the time I was about 18.