We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

A thing well done is worth doing.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

I think with every writer there are two people there.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.