Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

You could make mistakes when you lived together because you knew you'd wake up the next morning with another chance.

It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

I will say that if my wildest dreams come true, I will, like, wake up one day, and I will be Carol Dweck, right? Because she is like everything I want to be.

Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

I boil the strings so they stretch.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.