Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.