Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.

Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.