I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

When you have children, you're obligated to live.

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

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

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.

They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.