As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

Not all fairy tales have happily ever afters, some just have afters.

It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.

My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.

When we met, my agenda was "Get Elle Fanning." I believe Elle's was "Get the role." But we didn't know that.

I cannot overemphasize this, the attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.