You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.