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.

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

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

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.

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

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).

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

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.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

I want you, " she said."I told you so, " he said.

(I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story),

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

Love is finding someone better than you are, and holding on for dear life

The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

God, America is a country predicated on listening to everybody. When did we stop listening to one another?

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.