I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.

I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

Maybe the '50s and '60s were more awkward because everyone knew there were things under the surface, but no one talked about them.

Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

Smoke rose straight up from the chimney, as if the house raised its hand. As if the house knew the answer.

Are you disappointed with society? If you are, I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

It is difficult to live in the present ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

I live in a crazy time.

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

What's important is self-appreciation

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity.

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.