But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It's like a mathematical law, Grace.

Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude

The truth of the story lies in the details.