I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

If you can't explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don't understand it very well, or it's not all that worthwile in the first place.

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.

I think the most important thing is that everybody is happy creating, and doing what they want to do, and have really great relationships with each other.

I know that when you take care of yourself and are happy and healthy, you are better for those around you and your environment.

I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.