What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History. Being faithful to all that happens to you of significance, recording days, dates, events, names, sights not relying merely upon memory which fades like a Polaroid print where you see the memory fading before your eyes like time itself retreating.

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

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.