How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

life is not about how fast you start, but how the end is going to be, so don't worry when others are ahead of you.just keep on doing what you have been doing.

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

The first thing is we got to make sure we try to keep guns out of the wrong hands. And I want comprehensive background checks.

The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Tomorrow let us do or die!