A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.

Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.