In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

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.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."

A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

I think that's the answer to a good marriage. Everyone has their own room.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.