“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”

“Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.”

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”

“…there was no better company for an especially personal revelation than the company of virtual strangers.”

“I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the equivalent of photographs in one's imagination of anyone's life. A whole life, I mean. I can picture her when she was much younger than I am - because there are always gestures and expressions that are ingrained, ageless. An old woman doesn't see herself as an old woman, and neither do I. I try to see her her whole life in her. There's something so moving about someone's whole life.”

“Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.”

“...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.”