I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.

The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.