“How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life”

“Once you set out for something, there may be obstacles. Avoid that which you feel safe to avoid, and approach that which you feel safe to approach. That’s how we go through the obstacles.”

“Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise.”

“I had learned a little about writing from Soldier's Pay - how to approach language, words: not with seriousness so much as an essayist does, but with a kind of alert respect, as you approach dynamite; even with joy, as you approach women: perhaps with the same secretly unscrupulous intentions.”

“You should approach each book -- you should approach life -- with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.”

“Chances don't approach you,it's you who approach chances.”