Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.