Long days and pleasant nights

Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.

The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.