“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.”

“One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.”

“The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think.”

“When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.”

“You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.”

“I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.”

“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.”