I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.

Somtimes people run to see if you'll ever come after them. -Joe

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

A backward glance can often lift the heart.

Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.

What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!

The happiest girls always have the prettiest nails.