Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

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

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

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

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.