I would stay in New York, I told him, just six months, and I could see the Brooklyn Bridge from my window. As it turned out the bridge was the Triborough, and I stayed eight years.

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.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

Well, now you can see how sensible it is not to start your day by guessing what might happen... After all, how long would I have had to go on guessing before I guessed this?

I need to be able to face things.

Football is a game of tomorrows.

I spit honey out of my mouth: nothing is second-best after the sweet of Eros.

There's a lot of letters in Ladanian Tomlinson

I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.