The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

My nostalgia is for the impossible.

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

Self-righteous victims invite extra nails.

Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.