I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.