At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.

At one point, she said after a while, at one point we thought we might raise silkworms in one of the empty rooms. But then we never did. Oh, for the countless things one fails to do!

Memories lie slumbering within us for months and years, quietly proliferating, until they are woken by some trifle and in some strange way blind us to life.

When people don't have much money, they invest in emotions... when some people have lots of money, they invest in emotional fools !

metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love

Note: addiction diverts attention

It's the whole not the detail that matters.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences to change.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Politicians, you know Harry Reid hates you. We get it. But when somebody from "The New York Times" or "The Washington Post" is saying this stuff, that's different, that's offensive, that's wrong.

Beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas.

I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me.

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.