Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

The past is the prism through which we see a great, great, great deal of ourselves; it's a useful prism. It doesn't mean that we're fascinated by the dead or that we're fascinated by things that are settled. It is just one place where we can go to understand ourselves in the present.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.