In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

Good historians...have the future in their bones

Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.

...CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr.

Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.

The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It's a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence.

I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.