“I am the place in which something has occurred.”
“Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.”
“There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or translate my impulses into words, I am betraying the real thoughts and impulses which remain hidden.”
“The place where...knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.”
“Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.”