I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims.

Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle

We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn’t as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.