You see in others who you are.

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

First drafts are for learning what your story is about.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.