I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Close your eyes to see the world with your imaginative mind.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

Knowledge is Power, and it's very lightweight.

I keep living this day like the next will never come.

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.