Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe… — 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, a negative sanctuary. You wait and wait, but the receptionist is very stern and, somehow, the appointment book always full. To make matters worse, crowded into the adjoining cell like so many desperate immigrants, and separated… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share
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. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar’s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share
“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
