Learn to write by writing

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

I'm very comfortable writing.

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.