In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.

What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.

Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.