When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

What cannot be said, will get wept.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

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.

Death steals everything except our stories.