Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.

Better to try and fail than not to try at all

The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.

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.

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.

All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.