Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.