You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

Loneliness is a strange gift.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.