You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.

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.

They're simply seeking an interlude from emotional pain and searing mental agony, a sleep from which they'll awaken to discover they're the person they always wanted to be.

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

A chic home makes you happy and a happy home makes you chic!

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.

I'm not gonna be perfect, but I'm gonna try stuff.