For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

“Gen stopped and talked to Simon Thaibault, who was reading One Hundred Years Of…”

“Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.”

“I saw it myself. An endless succession of mongrels and malingerers, the laziest…”

“Writing a novel and living a life are very much the same thing. The secret is f…”