Every woman feels that the greater her power over a man, the more impossible it is to leave him except by sudden flight: a fugitive precisely because a queen.

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow!

She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive.

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

We consider it innocent to desire, and heinous that the other person should do so.

By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.

I like rain and mist. I've never understood why people exclaim over bright skies and bushels of glaring sunshine.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

It is always a sad thing to understand those who once were obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved.

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up.

If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.