Have you never been so heartbreakingly lonely that you felt as though you would go mad?”- Darcia Moon, Gravitation, Book One: Beyond the Pale

We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

I love that you're worried, ' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people. Even if you know them from way back when, it's hard to trust people. There's a lot we have to deal with, and it's the price of fame.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

What the eye delights in, no longer dictates My greed to enjoy: boys, grass, the fenced-off deer. It leaves those figures that distantly play On the horizon's rim: they sign their peace, in games.

It's great to be young and a Yankee!