Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.