It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.

I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.

I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.

Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.