One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.

In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and considered it useful for future generations. And then it became what it became - a public purging in which other people have the chance to judge you and then forgive you, perhaps learning something from your sorry example.

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

Because sometimes you have no control over life and it keeps you far away from who you love.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.