For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend. — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that. — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice. — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Inaction is not the same thing as patience. It is instead a kind of perpetual waiting room, a sterile holding pen for unlived desire,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become. — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world.… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Why? What had she ever done? What had any of them ever done? To give a child only to take him away. To make… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them. — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
In Japan, more than in any other country I've ever been in, one is not supposed to write about the people in the glass… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
