After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.

The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

I am trying to talk about what blue means, or what it means to me, apart from meaning.

Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.

We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.

To take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you?

What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they?

The greater good has been defined as "the ends justify the means." The common good says that "liberty resides in the means.

The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still.

I keep expectations so embarrassingly low that I broke my contract and went and got a hair-cut.

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

I think all writing is done through memory

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.

Always look for common ground, but don't ever be afraid to choose sides.