I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own favorite books are slim, but there's a lot of weight and power in them.

It's interesting, editing can be so immersive for me that I've noticed that the authors I edit have a pretty profound effect on how I hear language for a while.

I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly changed my relationship to how books get made.

Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities.

That in itself made her a little intriguing and enticing. A woman who doesn't know her own potential for passion

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.