Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.