“You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.”

“Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.”

“A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.”

“There's time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for - the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing. Time as white sound.”

“The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.”

“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”

“Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning.”