I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.

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.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Do not get lost in the flow of reality.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

Nothing causes more people to deny God, misunderstand God, mistreat others, or abuse Nature more than the illusion of separateness. Nothing. No thing.

We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say.

It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.

You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.

If they're going to pay me like [Mike] Gallego, I'm going to play like Gallego.

There was nothing so attractive as a powerful, handsome, and self-assured man.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.