I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?

He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them

I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.

Idleness is seductive.Just relax and do nothing, it says.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

I'm not as snarky as I used to be.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!