Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Anger has been ready to be angry.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

There are silences harder to take back than words.