Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

I must say that, on the whole, I prefer fiction to poetry.

How can you teach someone to be creative? You have to create yourself.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.

It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away from fiction for so long and couldn't tear myself away from it.

That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

Orgy-porgy, round and round and round, beating one another in six-eight time.

Whatever you do is your deed.

The world as we see it is only the world as we see it. Others may see it differently.

Relationships are possible, but are definitely not a road paved with roses.

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I, But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round, Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found, - A life-complete in death-complete to die.

It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.