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

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.

Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least good friends we know So live and laugh nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.

You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus.

We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

That penny farthing hell you call your mind