Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

I'm delighted by how Nobody's Fool turned out. It was a rare movie.

I can be glib and truthful all at once.