“It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.”
“The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.”
“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.”
“Kissing with golden face the meadows green,Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy”
“The truth never hurts more than finding out someone you love has lied to you.”
“Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the missing parts back to it, of making it more holistic.”