He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

There is no art without artist, try to paint your future under God's control.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

I've been surfing so many years and it's a pretty strong part of my life so I'm not gonna give that up.

I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.

I'd always dabbled in acting.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

[Sharron Angle] said, 'I can't win without you getting out of the race.' But I said I couldn't. I'm going to beat Harry Reid.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.