Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. "People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

There is no justice in killing in the name of justice.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Handsome widows, after a twelve-month, enjoy a latitude and longitude without limit.

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

Talk in order that I may see you.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….