The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. It’s hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life. (p. 394)
The only reason anyone writes stories is so they can understand the past and get ready for some future mortality; that’s why all the verbs in stories have -ed endings… even the ones that sell millions of paperbacks. (pp. 398-399)
Speech destroys the function of love, I think — that’s a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. The word is the harm…. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It’s the other way around, that’s the joke. If those wounds dry up, the words die with them. Take it from me. I’ve made my life from the words, and I know that is so. (p.426)
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