There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.