She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Choose who to cheer for you, not chase who is cheering for you!

Perhaps, in the end, only those who really made us laugh can really make us cry.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

It was like Elvis came along and whispered some dream in everybody's ear

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

His eyes held hers. “Because I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag.

There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know.

Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.