I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.