There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.