Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.

I was the only person in the world who thought it was a military duty to appear to be in a good mood.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.