I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that…

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.