If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you don't expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
Motivations are too tangled and complex.
Nobody does anything for one reason.
One hates a person for the same reason one loves him.
Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.
The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.
The same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.
There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It's always smarter than we are.
We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.
When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in charge.
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