Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.

Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world.

You limit your options every time you don't try your best.

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

There is no problem only solutions

And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.

I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad.

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.