Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.

Life is a disease.

Heroics are not easily had for the young in our times. Perhaps that is why they go to such extremes to create their own dangers.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.