There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Moving your body moves energy. You can create or demolish whatever you need with kinetic dynamism.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

The bold sympathize with the bold; and in great hearts, there is always a certain friendship for a gallant foe.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.

I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.

It's easy to be an educated fool.

Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.

Every woman is not a runway model, nor should she be.