I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

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

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')

I'm falling into disrepair

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

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