You're Only Good If You Can Do

Writing Is The Only Thing I've Ever Done With Persistence, Except For Being Married.

The Pace Of Life Feels Morally Dangerous To Me.

I Wouldn't Be A Very Good Writer If Someone Hadn't Taught Me How To Read.

What I Know Is, You Have Chance In Life--of Surviving It--if You Tolerate Loss Well; Manage Not To Be A Cynic Through It All; To Subordinate, As Ruskin Implied, To Keep Proportion, To Connect The Unequal Things Into A Whole That Preserves The Good, Even If Admittedly Good Is Often Not Simple To Find.

Life's Passed Along To Us Empty. We Have To Make Up The Happiness Part.