I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.

A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.