Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

Love is such a beautiful way to walk on with life.

The power of positive thoughts is divine. Maintain a positive thoughts to create the life you want.

Lay out your options, dismiss the ones that are of zero appeal, and focus on those that not only excite you, but make sense to you.

How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?

A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.

I wanted to be a professional singer/actress, though I knew it would be hard.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

I met this girl, she was an actress, and she gave me her number. It started with 555.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.