We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what’s already been set in motion.

Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.