Art's Too Long And Life's Too Short.

Old Age Is Another Country, A Place Of Strangeness, Sometimes, And Dislocation. There's A Lot To Be Done In This Country, And A Great Deal Of Pleasure There. There Are Friends, Some Of Whom Are Sick And Needful Of You, As You Will Be Of Them Someday. The World Itself Is Very Beautiful. It's A Place Where You Have A Lot To Do. But You Have To Do It Knowing That Sometimes You Will Be Afraid Of This New Country.

Waves, Once They Land On The Beach, Are Not Reversible.

But What's A Writer For? The Whole Point Is To Put Yourself Into Other Lives, Other Heads-writers Have Always Done That. If You Screw Up, So Someone Will Tell You, That's All.

No Metaphor Reinvents The Job Of The Nurture Of Children Except To Muddy Or Mock.

The Word Career Is A Divisive Word. It's A Word That Divides The Normal Life From Business Or Professional Life.