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

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

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

There are silences harder to take back than words.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

Too much apology doubles the offense.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.