When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."

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.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.