I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.