Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

The hard part is, of course, the proximity of death. The number has no meaning as long as you're fit and healthy. But you know that you only have so much time left and you don't know how much it is. It could be a very short time.

There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid