However Long We Have To

Perhaps It's Only When People Are Dead That We Can Safely Show How Much We Cared About Them. We Know That It's Too Late Then For Them To Do Anything About It.

Ambition, If It Were To Be Savored, Let Alone Achieved, Had To Be Rooted In Possibility.

To Look Back On One's Life Is To Experience The Capriciousness Of Memory. ... The Past Is Not Static. It Can Be Relived Only In Memory, And Memory Is A Device For Forgetting As Well As Remembering. It, Too, Is Not Immutable. It Rediscovers, Reinvents, Reorganizes. Like A Passage Of Prose It Can Be Revised And Repunctuated. To That Extent, Every Autobiography Is A Work Of Fiction And Every Work Of Fiction An Autobiography.

Wars May Be Fought By Decent Men, But They're Not Won By Them.

Perfect Love May Cast Our Fear, But Fear Is Remarkably Potent In Casting Out Love.