To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.

She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?

Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do.

I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true