This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often they don't, and the more in a hurry you are, the quicker you break down.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

There is nothing in the world stronger than gentleness.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

People never think about words, they only feel them.

Sadness is so ungrateful.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!

You might try doing what my folks did. Twice a week they would go out for a special meal. . . with wine good food and soft lighting. Dad took Tuesday and Mom took Thursday.

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

Corn is the only food you hold like corn.

It's dangerous when music gets cornered by anything.

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate.