There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

I think that so far the political and economic power of the fossil fuel industry has trumped all else.

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.