Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.

Everybody believes in chance.

Learn to write by writing

Everyone knows everything eventually.

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.