You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.

A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means whereby it was made. We do not trust the artist's flattering hand; but we do trust film, and shadows, and light.

We are most alive when we're in love.