When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

Things don't go away. They become you.

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.

Diminish the influence of fate

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.

This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.

Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.

My blood makes noise. And I’m saying this now, because I have a strange gut feeling that it will be silenced someday soon.

It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

It's getting harder and harder to know, when you find things on the Internet, what you can believe and what you can't.

We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

I think where you play is important.

Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer sat on him to force him to submit to their wishes.

Happiness is a new idea in Europe.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.