I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is.