Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between 'cost cutting' and 'eliminating the causes of costs'

I never regretted turning down anything, I never regretted losing a job because I always felt something else was out there.

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.

A good film is also a documentary

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

We want to seal the deal that we're the best team that's ever happened.

When you're writing‚ you're conjuring. It's a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.