As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt)

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.

It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.