Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.