To cease to love -- that is defeat.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.