Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that I think I discovered about those additional years is that I don't think they really are added to the end of life.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

Testosterone does not have to be toxic.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.