Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.