You cannot drive with your eyes in the rear-view mirror… But dignity is difficult to maintain. Stamina requires constant upkeep. Repetition is boring. And you pay for grace.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.

We are formed by what we desire

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.