That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.