Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

I think the story is my form.

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery