The kind of happy I was that day at the Vet when Hawk Dawson actually doffed his red C cap to me, and everyone cheered and practically convulsed into tears - you can't patent that. It was one shining...
Porque no hay una forma adecuada de planificar la vida ni tampoco de vivirla: sólo un montón de formas inadecuadas.
Nothing in the world is as hopeful as knowing a woman you like is somewhere thinking about only you. Conversely, there is no badness anywhere as acute as the badness of no woman out in the world think...
Most things dopn't stay the way they are very long.
With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
Real mystery - the very reason to read (and certainly write) any book - was to them a thing to dismantle, distill and mine out into rubble they could tyrannize into sorry but more permanent explanatio...
If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.
Then nothing was ever again as it had been. You don’t think things like that can happen. Then you find out they both can and will. So,
You survived. Whatever doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, right? I don’t, of course, believe this. Most things that don’t kill us right off, kill us later.
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being
Love, Henry remembered thinking then, was a lengthy series of insignificant questions whose answers you couldn’t live without.
I thought that the difference between a successful life and an unsuccessful one, between me at that moment and all the people who owned the cars that were nosed-in to their proper places in the lot, m...
No one’s permitted in except contractors, owners, and local officialdom (plus President Obama and our big candied yam of a governor).
Loneliness, I've read, is like being in a long line, waiting to reach the front where it's promised something good will happen. Only the line never moves, and other people are always coming in ahead o...
It's shocking to note how close we play to unwelcome realizations, and yet how our ongoing ignorance makes so much of life possible.
Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything b...
Sharing the future with someone would certainly mean that repetitions had to be managed more skillfully.
Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.
Teachers, let me tell you, are born deceivers of the lowest sort, since what they want from life is impossible — time-freed, existential youth forever. It commits them to terrible deceptions and depar...
Some things can't be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or become interesting in another way. Literature's consolations are always temporary, while life is qu...