People Have Thoughts They’d Sooner Not Have.

Memory Is The Way We Keep Telling Ourselves Our Stories - And Telling Other People A Somewhat Different Version Of Our Stories.

Who Can Ever Say The Perfect Thing To The Poet About His Poetry?

Writing Is Hard, But The More You Write, And Enjoy What You Write, The Better It Gets.

Every Year, When You're A Child, You Become A Different Person.

I Used To Feel For Years And Years And Years That I Was Very Remiss Not To Have Written A Novel And I Would Question People Who Wrote Novels And Try To Find Out How They Did It And How They Had Got Past Page 30. Then, With The Approach Of Old Age, I Began To Just Think: “well, Lucky I Can Do Anything At All.