When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Writing is my vacation from living.

None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!