Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.

Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as anchors in tattoos.

The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know that as my interest in tennis waned, my interest in academics increased. I mean, I started doing my homework in high school and discovering that it was somewhat fun. And then in college I barely even played on the team because just classes were much more interesting.