The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Never stop learning. The minute you think you know it all is the minute you stop growing.

"Writing is a way to make sense of our hopes."

The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.

Writing is a way of preserving the truth of the past.