The silence is perfect, and yet a torment.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

The more we die, the stronger we will become

What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.

It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

You don't really have a choice. You are alive and you will die.

A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

It's a marvelous night for a moondance!