The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.