When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I open my door here, I'm not opening into the possibility that I'm going to run into somebody or be faced with a hundred choices about what I'm going to do, or which cafe I'm going to go to, or which way to distract myself.
Dani ShapiroWe can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.
Dani ShapiroOur minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
Dani ShapiroWhen I was starting out there was no Internet, there wasn't this sense that you could be connected to other writers around the world. And that created a kind of innocence, or parochial quality, even in NYC.
Dani ShapiroIn every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.
Dani Shapiro