I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.
The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.
The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.