“It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.”

“I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked.""I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed.”

“I write nonfiction because individuals are unique and go through different experiences, our collective experiences enhances all our lives.”

“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.”

“Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.”

“One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.”