The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I GO DOWN TO THE SHORE I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall— what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do.