fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.
All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.
Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.
it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.