"

I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we...more

"

Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one's midlife crisis, to the belief that exist...more

"

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens an...more

"

More than death, one fears the utter isolation that accompanies it. We try to go through life two by two, but each one of us must die alone- no one ca...more

"

Upon learning that her cancer had spread to her spine, Paula prepared her thirteen year-old son for her death by writing him a letter of farewell that...more

"

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortalit...more

"

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

"

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

"

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

"

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy o...more