In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

Perhaps a great deed is belittled by an intention. And perhaps a small deed, by sincere intention, is made great

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

Good composers don't borrow, they steal

the urgent crowds out the essential.

How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed.

Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.