In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it w...
Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.
I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.
[P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.
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.
I think I have never known anyone who led quite unexamined a life.
I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.
When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.
Water under the bridge and dynamite it behind you.
There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant.
The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.
That we have made a hero of Howard Hughes tells us something interesting about ourselves, something only dimly remembered, tells us that the secret point of money and power in America is neither the t...
Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.
Raised to believe that her life would be, as her great-grandmother's was said to have been, one ceaseless round of fixed and settled principles, aims, motives, and activity, she could sometimes think...
Maria did not particularly believe in rewards, only in punishments, swift and personal.
I have been looking all my life for history and have yet to find it.
I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead...
Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?