Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

Memory and Habit are attributes of the Time cancer. They control the most simple Proustian episode, and an understanding of their mechanism must precede any particular analysis of their application.

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

Never pretend to be who you are not. It doesn't take long before the truth gets revealed and you'll be left hurt with the results.

This was the part of the road he knew best, the part his old blue Schwinn had known so well that at one time, the bike might have found its way back home without anyone riding it.

I had to get healthy for a period in my life, so I learned a lot about food and diet.

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

There is not economy in getting cheap service or equipment. Buy the best and cry only once.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.