My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

We have all witnessed, as well, family, friends, or medical workers who have chosen to provide years of loving care to persons who may suffer from Alzheimer's or other debilitating illnesses precisely because they are human persons, not because doing so instrumentally advances some other hidden objective.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I learned that you lean into your family, ask for help, and show compassion.

Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.