You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.

Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.