The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.

The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well.

The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Promise me you will appreciate every moment because we are the lucky ones

You'd type like hell. I spent $9.80 and in nine days I had Fahrenheit 451.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.