“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very best poem while sitting on the hen-house.”

“I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...”

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”

“It is part of a follow-my-leader game of second-best we have all been playing . . . it isn't a very good game; the people you play it with are apt to get hurt.”

“... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.”

“While I have been writing I have lived in the past, the light of it has been all around me...”

“My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?”