It might be said that a great unstated reason for travel is to find places that exemplify where one has been happiest. Looking for idealised versions….

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going..

During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can st….

The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class commun….

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire ….

But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so much so….

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints..

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective..

When we don’t take God too seriously, others don’t take our leadership too seriously!.

The future did not arrive..

Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time..

Putin is somebody who really respects strength..

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new..

The main thing is not to be dead..

I say with pride that I've done over a hundred voices or something, and some of them may have only had two or three lines, but I literally never ran ….

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally..

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it..

Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper….

When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems to walk in….

There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we had to ask: How is he talking about ….