Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

I'm very claustrophobic.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle

Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

Anderson Cooper every night dreams about getting my job permanently really.