We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.
Richard FordMy job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.
Richard FordVery early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.
Richard FordThe art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
Richard FordSome people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what writers really want to do is get accepted into things. They want to get accepted into society, into culture, into intelligentsia, into the fun. Writing is their mechanism, their instrument, for doing that.
Richard Ford