For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.