Did you hear about Katie Parkinson? ... She's going out with Christopher... They've been kissing.""It was like a Semtex explosion in my brain. I did not know whether to cry or run away.

Civilization has provided no peace, no spectacle, no assurance to the human heart which can transcend the simple, ever-changing, matchless beauty and peace of the natural world

Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies.

His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

The burial of feelings has begun.

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?

It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.