I don't believe in happy endings.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.