“There are heroes, and there are the rest of us. There comes a time when you just let go the ghost of the better person you might have been.” — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“life is not an echo, endlessly returning the past to us so that we might read and reread in its fading variations the meanings we cannot keep ourselves from wanting.” — 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
