In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction.

Love is the story and the prayer that matters the most.

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am?

By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

Stop smiling. Every time you smile, an angel dies.

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

And I can see Russia from my house.