Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.