Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.
Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.
You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.