Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me.

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

"Silence Of The Lambs" is definitely very frightening.

When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?