This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

Read books. They are good for us.