So Much Of What You Take For

I Think The Gift Of My Mother's Death, If Anything So Terrible Can Be Said To Have An Upside To It, Is That I Was Always Keenly Aware That Life Was Fleeting, And That You'd Better Live While You Have The Chance. As I Say In The Book, Since I Was 19 Years Old I Felt Like I Was Living For Two, And When I Out-lived My Mother, When I Got Into My Forties, It Felt Like A Miracle To Me.

Maybe Crazy Is Just The Word We Use For Feelings That Will Not Be Contained.

All The Things We Don’t Say, All The Words We Swallow, And It Makes Nothing But Trouble.

I Think Books In Which People Are Really Happy And Things Are Going Well Are Probably The Most Challenging Novels There Are To Write, And There Are Very Few Of Them.

Sometimes We Don't See Out Of Our Peripheral Vision What's Coming Right Around The Corner.