You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.

The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.

I've never seen grief like it. Grief like that, it's like an animal. She's not eating. She's not sleeping. She's whimpering. She's sluggish. She's not herself

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?

What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity.

When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.

You can’t fathom the alien mind.

You can love someone and not like spending time with them.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

Whether you like it or not - I want to close the Dutch borders.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our childrens lives.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

I don't try to stop myself from becoming too personal. I just put it all out there. If anything, I try to remind myself to be as honest as possible all the time. Why hold back?

If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.