I have never been much of a researcher

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it any longer.

Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.