No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing,….

I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me..

In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the….

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is….

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing..

I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious..

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?.

Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been more than ten….

When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing,….

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do..

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyon….

As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out.

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit….

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'.

A canteen I remember vividly, and maybe one other thing, I can't remember. And I knew then that he had bought them in an army surplus store that day ….

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common hum….

I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the ….

We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we can never be sure, and as our lives go on, we b….

I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets,….

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who….

We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accide….