Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.