“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”

“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

“Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ”

“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”

“Having you in my life is so comforting, because it's like you feel and say all the same things I always did, but hearing you say them somehow confirms them for me, the way it's impossible to feel the same pleasure from running your own fingers through your own hair. What I'm trying to say is, you just can't tickle yourself.”

“A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it. What we say occupies a very thin surface, like the skin over a body of water. Beneath this, through the water itself, is what we see, sometimes clearly if the water is calm, sometimes vaguely if the water is troubled, and we imagine this vision to be the truth, clear or vague. But beneath this is yet another level. This is the level of what is and this level has nothing to do with what we say or what we see.”