The Quality Of Gifts Depends On The

I Used To Do Everything To Keep A Wall Up Around Myself And Keep My Life Quiet So That I Could Write.

There Can Be Something Cruel About People Who Have Had Good Fortune. They Equate It With Personal Goodness.

The Timing Of The Electrical Failure Seemed Dramatic And Perfectly Correct, As If The Lights Had Said, "you Have No Need For Sight. Listen.

I Think The Best Vacation Is The One That Relieves Me Of My Own Life For A While And Then Makes Me Long For It Again.

I Believe That, More Than Anything Else, This Grief Of Constantly Having To Face Down Our Own Inadequacies Is What Keeps People From Being Writers. Forgiveness, Therefore, Is Key. I Can't Write The Book I Want To Write, But I Can And Will Write The Book I Am Capable Of Writing. Again And Again Throughout The Course Of My Life I Will Forgive Myself.