“Hunger is good discipline.”

“Memory is hunger.”

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

“Good writing is good conversation, only more so.”

“Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.”

“A bottle of wine was good company.”

“If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”