My life is not just about the past.

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.