“Time is something you can't replace”

“I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.”

“Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.”

“What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.”

“...with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world, and would sell you cheap to illusion.”

“Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.”

“you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind.”