The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.