But I can hardly remember what it felt like. It's like everything that happens to you. It doesn't feel real.
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying
Change your thought, change your mind.Change your belief, change your action.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.