The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.

Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.p. 479

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed or not possible to avoid making those that are required.

Margaret is the most beautiful woman I've laid eyes on. The men in this county must be crazy not to see that.

They did what soldiers always do. They improvised.

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest.

You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player.

He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.