“...it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...”

“...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...”

“...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits ”

“...surely by now you must know: It’s love; it’s love—but will there ever be good news?...”

“...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..”

“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...”

“...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...”