Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret one's impulsiveness, one's misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you'd written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don't cherish us as we'd cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.