Joy recollected is indeed no longer the emotion itself.

The right sort of lie, I found, could serve better than the truth.

That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.

God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

The hardest thing about finding forgiveness is that you had to find it at all.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.