A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

The only certainty life contains is death.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

Don't make light of any man's pain.

What you withhold in this life will be withheld from you in the next.

I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I know now that creating absence is my way of coping with absence.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

The darkest hour was just before dawn.