All I can tell you is that at the end, there's nothing left but love.

Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.

Absolution exists, call it Christian or whatever. It’s far older than any creed, and one of our blessings.

Long after you have reached the end of your natural span, part of you will dwell within me . . . as I shall be in you to the last of your days and even after.

A closed door really is an open door in disguise.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.

Even though I've done a lot it also feels like I haven't done a lot. I've sort of popped in for supporting roles in things, and that's been really delightful.

Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.

After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Governments have a favorite phrase: “lean and mean.” But they’ve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.