I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly insane every night of out lives.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

What should I do if my problems aren't all solved by the time I die?

Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.

Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.

If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you!

You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.

While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.