It was striking, the character of destruction. It was always diverse - Richard Ford

It's shocking to note how close we play to unwelcome realizations, and yet how our ongoing ignorance makes so much of life possible.

I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people — men and women alike — could go on to happier, more productive lives.

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.