Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in

Did you just call me ‘sweetie’?” I asked. She shoved my shoulder. “No.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

I could have happily moved in and left my own cold, dark house behind, pretended as if this family were my own: loud and teasing and good-natured, instead of the fractured broken truth.

Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.

The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what its like to lose a beloved parent.