“Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.”

“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know”

“I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima”

“I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn’t have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.”

“wonder what day god created the egg’ ‘how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks’. ‘eat a egg”