“...you can't be intimate unless you're sensitive...”

“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...”

“...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...”

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

“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”

“...you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...”

“...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...”