“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.”

“While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.”

“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.”

“Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.”

“The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.”

“In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.”