I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.

These moments were wondrous and divine, instances when the gossamer curtain between heaven and earth ripped and all of humanity witnessed the marvel of the ethereal beings.

That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.

One is but a shade of the other.

Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

I love sandwiches. Let's face it, life is better between two pieces of bread.

I'm very involved in all of my social media activities. I'm not an actor. I play myself, and I take that very seriously.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

In our entrancement with the motorcar, we have forgotten how much more efficient and how much more flexible the footwalker is.

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

Silence is the eternal duty of man.