Memories separated in time are often recalled side by side-there's an emotional connection that has nothing to do with the diary dates and everything to do with the feeling.Remembering isn't like visi...
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people keep fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to th...
It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest.
It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whol...
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way.
In the sky, Planet Moon is 239,000 miles away. That’s not far when you remember that the sun is 93 million miles away.
If there is such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.
If someone liked me, I waited until she was off guard, and then I told her I didn’t want to be her friend any more. I watched the confusion and upset. The tears. Then I ran off, triumphantly in contro...
I've thought of killing myself many times. I don't do it, not because I am a coward, but because it would be easier for me to be dead. What's my life? I make money and I make memories. That's not a li...
I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me.
I walked round the block thinking I’d think about it, but my legs were heading home, and sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do.
I tried to copy my parents, as monkeys do, but they were trying to copy me, looking to the child for the energy and hope they had long since lost.
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wo...
I sat at the back, listening to the music or mumbling through the service. I'm never tempted by God but I like his trappings.
I read that the body remakes itself every seven years. Every cell. Even the bones rebuild themselves like coral. Why then do we remember what should be long gone? What’s the point of every scar and hu...
I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I’ve never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I’d want to feel the stars roun...
I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence.
I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping spirit for the lover's dreams.
I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.