Animal Dreams

The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.