There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

We write to discover what we think.

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

Most death now happens in hospitals. It's been medicalized. It happens away from where we deal with it directly. And that's a huge change. At the beginning of the 20th century most people died at home. Death was much more common.