For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.