Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Tu puedes, tu SIEMPRE puedes

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.

The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

I didn't get married. I do have a boyfriend. We live together.

You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.