“I tend not to look back. What’s done is done, good, bad or indifferent. I’m much more concerned with whatever’s coming next.”

“Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mistery. Today is a gift, that's why they call it the present.”

“For the biographer, the final clue to character lies in the yet unread - the scribbled note, the diary page, a notation in the margin of a draft - until the day when even the most devoted portraitist of the dead says, "Enough!" Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible - resurrection.”

“She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.”

“good people do bad things”

“The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre, done in 1872.”

“She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been”