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Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.

I?m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.

You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman?s name and claim to love her.

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.