I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?

the music was always in the background, like music at a church service; it was something to depend upon.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.

I love insult, it's always honest.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.