Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.