Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.

Justice has a right to protest against injustice.

The student asked the master, “Teacher, what should I do to become great?”the master replied:Succeed where others have failed.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

Getting an interview with someone is like asking your good-looking cousin to go out with a friend of a friend on a blind date: you must approach the subject Just So.

Addiction struggle is believing you are separate from love. It took me a long time to glimpse that.

We were never tragedies. We were emergencies. You go ahead, call 9-1-1. Tell them I'm havin' a fantastic time.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.

Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.