What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.

This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.