How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.