Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.