Good is not good enough when better is expected
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.
I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have waxed less and listened more. . . . I would have cried and laughed less while watching television. . . and more while watching real life. . . . But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it. . . look at it and really see it. . . try it on. . . live it. . . exhaust it. . . and never give the minute back until there was nothing left of it.
. . . I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.
To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.
Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.