The problem with escaping is that we leave behind us, even among those we love, different versions of the truth and everything we couldn’t bring ourselves to say.

People are complicated, ” she said. “Didn’t they teach you that in biography school?

In March of that year, I saw a man named Paul Barkley shot to death. It happened late at night in the parking lot of a café in Santa Rosa called Galileo’s.

Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.

Take a seat, Charlie, ” he said. “I’ll kill you in a few minutes. It’ll be good for you.

If they’re together long enough, every couple has one conversation over and over. This was ours.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.

The whole history of the Canadian north can be divided into two periods - before and after the aeroplane.

Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.

Tequila is like acid in a glass.

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.