It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

There is no ending to the number of products you can produce with your time if well invested.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that’s what mothers did.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

I think everybody needs a little bit of Minnie in their wardrobe.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Everything means nothing to me

There are no limits to what science can explore.

I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.

Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.