And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers--strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.

Satan must be defeated in the arena he dominates, this world. So Christ was sent into this world to destroy Satan's works.

It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.

AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation and what's going on today.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.