The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we’ve done, or relive a life already recorded.

No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.