A person is a great process, a bridge from animal to Soul. But we do not know about it
I define success as being the best, authentic me that I can be.
You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered.
He doesn't know who I am.
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.
I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?
It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.
She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
My wandering has led me to the beginning of our journey together. I suppose it's only fitting for me to be here at that journey's end.
I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.
The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.
Oh, I know what to do when I see victuals coming toward me in little old Bagdad-on-the-Subway. I strike the asphalt three times with my forehead and get ready to spiel yarns for my supper.
The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.
You were young, I thought, not but before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago.
Do I ever feel like anything?
Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.
You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
