If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering.

It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.