What matters most is that we learn from living.

I never stopped reading.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

For there is never any way to go but in.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.