Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.
. . the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.
I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.
The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.
Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.
. . . there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.
The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.
Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.
Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you; for you only make your trouble double trouble when you do.