I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.

Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.