What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.