I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.
I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.