An inability (or reduced ability) to empathise is not the same as an inability to love. Love is a powerful feeling for another person, often defying logic.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

If you really love someone, ' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.

Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing

There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing.

I'm not a conservative or a free market advocate or a Republican because, you know, I want people to like me.

It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does ?

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.