Everybody Believes In Chance.

It Turns Out That The Distance From Head To Hand, From Wafting Butterfly To Entomological Specimen, Is Achieved Through Regular Practice. What Begins As Something Like A Dream Will In Fact Stay A Dream Forever Unless You Have The Tools And The Discipline To Bring It Out.

This Is My Job, My Livelihood: The Health And The Well-being Of The Publishing Industry. We're All Responsible For This.

It Was All In My Head And Now All I Had To Do Was Figure Out A Way To Get It Down On Paper.

Whenever I Saw Her, I Felt Like I Had Been Living In Another Country, Doing Moderately Well In Another Language, And Then She Showed Up Speaking English And Suddenly I Could Speak With All The Complexity And Nuance That I Hadn't Realized Was Gone. With Lucy I Was A Native Speaker.

Updike And Bellow And Roth Were My Three Favorite Writers When I Was Young And Throughout My Life.