It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.