Perhaps that is what it means to be a father - to teach your child to live without you.

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.

What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation.

The idea that we've outgrown ends up limiting us and we have to make a choice about what we're going to do in our lives.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

Life in general in my experience gets deeper and deeper, more and more profound, more and more complex, the older one gets.