Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

Man, ought to take care o his own business.don't you think, Mr. Mayor?

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.

...love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.