Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.
Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.