One thing that I discovered about myself is I really don't like traveling. I feel like it's a terrible personal failing, but I was so satisfied to arrive at the conclusion.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

To conform is to lose your soul

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

Life is enough grace.

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

I never go to a college reunion that I don't come away feeling sorry for all those paunchy, balding jocks trying to hang onto youth. I feel sorry for the men, too.

The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

I'm in pain but I'm confident I'll feel better tomorrow.

For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving.

[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

All photographs are self-portraits.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.