The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.