Nothing comes of so many things, if you have patience.

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

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

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct