“As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.”
“As we serve our jobs we serve the world.”
“We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve”
“If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.”
“But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention, which is seldom because, as writers, paying attention is what we do. We are scribes to the ticking of the days, and we have a job to do. We are not at peace unless we are doing it.”
“Surviving is a basic thing. Getting by. Staying alive in whatever way we can. It doesn't mean we make right choices or drive fine cars or have good jobs. It means we found a way not to die. I survived.”