Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?

I was here on earth because I chose to be.