Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.