If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

It's a wonderful fantasy, but it's not real. It's just watermelon magic.

Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

I would love to show my clevage and more body parts off but my record company won't let me.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave