Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative.

Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Every moment spent in negativity is paid for with something truly priceless. That something is life.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.