“It is the - actually profoundly unartistic - impulse to produce exterior likeness rather than inner truth: the same impulse as naturalistic photograpy and the "copy.”

“At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.”

“Passion arises from the heart, and your heart's impulse is more likely to be closer to the truth than your mind's analysis.”

“In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss. A skilled naturalist, by filing these materials, can reconstruct the oceanic depths from which they have been uprooted.”

“Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse”

“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.”