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It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'
Nobody thought about having more money than you could ever spend.
A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship.
When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: 'What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?'
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, 'It's OK. It's music to drive to.' But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie.
I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.