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.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.