I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)

You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.