As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

Chiropractic care works for me. I've been seeing a chiroprctor and he's really been helping me out a lot. Chiropractic's been a big part of my game.

I gravitate toward people that are a little more outrageous than I am. And we complement each other well.

As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.