Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

being together… it will never be right. Thought it sure as hell feels like it could. We’d result to train wrecks. We’d cause whirlwinds. We’d start wildfires.

Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.

We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

As soon as somebody comes out for a politician, especially in Hollywood, when they all go, 'I'm voting for this guy!' – I go, 'That's not who I'm voting for!'

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control