Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

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.

Carpe Diem... I express my gratitude for everything in my life. What else is possible?

Failure can only be a reality for those who are willing to give up on themselves. I hope we are all in it to win it?

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.

There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.