No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

It was a miracle to me, this transformation of my acorns into an oak.

How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

Good tells us that our agenda is the agenda of the person next to us.

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

Better to be blinde, then to see ill.

I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.