What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire.

For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards.

It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show.

The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of dealing with Greeks and their language.

It was my first dead body and I waited for the appropriate feelings. I didn't know what feelings to expect, which was worse than realising that I had none.

I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication.

Learn to stand for something right even if you are the only one standing for it.

Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one else to blame. If you will and you do, the world will beat a path to your doorstep…

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that.

I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

I have a hatred of habit and routine. And what dogs love is just that. They like regular everything, and I don't have regular anything. I have a timetable, but no routine.

Mama is funny. She has a great sense of humor and loves a good joke. Loves a practical joke, too.

I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.