It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

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.