You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

"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."

"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."

"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 he remakes it in his own image."

Writers are always selling somebody out.