“A Word is DeadA word is deadWhen it is said,Some say. I say it justBegins to liveThat day.”

“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.”

“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’. It’s not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: ‘I love you’ But, like a child, they’re longing to be told”

“The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.”

“god, they say, is love. and some one's got to pass the word.”

“I had known another world. It is impossible to give it a name. There are words like enchantment, words like bliss, but they didn't say it, they were stupid words. No words really said it. There was nothing to say about it except that I had known it, it had been mine. It was the one real thing, more real than the world.”