You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.