I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with.

Nobody's changing what you've got. You get to keep it.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.

The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.

If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.

Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.