Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even when I first started doing pieces.

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.

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

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.

Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.

Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Love looketh from the eye, and kindleth love by looking.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.