If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

I never asked to be born in the first place.