Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

Every book is its own black hole. Don’t fight the pull

Africa has within it everything it needs to reach the peace. But Africa does not do Africa, Africa does foreigners

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

People only buy when they're ready to buy. Not when you're ready to sell

Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.

When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world.

Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.