There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

You will definitely reap whatever you have sown

Success is never about money, it's always about talent.

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase.

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

Bird Poop in the mouth is always a surprise.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

I was a precocious reader.

Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things!