“Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let’s neither glorify nor undervalue.”

“I complained to a friend that although I had completed six years in therapy, my mother still wouldn’t let me go. He replied, "She’s not supposed to let you go. Your father is supposed to come and get you.”

“Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.”

“Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.”

“In time he found that all his perceptions were subject to the same easy control”

“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a scheme of things. Young people were first drawn to fiction, but as they grew older they were pulled more and more into nonfiction and biography, because nonfiction is so much more tragic, engrossing, and hilarious than anything else that could be invented. In this grand scheme, comic books and science fiction were just fine. They filled the need for a certain amount of time, and you moved on when that need was no longer filled.”

“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”