Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.