as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.