It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Nobody does anything for one reason.

I am not a ventriloquist.

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.

We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Driving home, it's all I can do to keep from crying. Time's come, time's gone, time's never returning, I say to myself. What's here in front of me is all I've got, I decide, and as I drive my car through the blowing snow it doesn't seem like much, except for the kindness that I've just exchanged with an old lady, so I concentrate on that.