What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.

As long as one suffers one lives.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.

Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas?""Perhaps they mix too well.

. . . when a woman has a husbandAnd you've got none, Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin' Greeks.

We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride

Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.