As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.

I think we think in terms of stories.

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.

There are so many cities in every single city.

Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.