...Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside...

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."I said, "She never has.

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

Free will, " she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.

There is no style in dieting but we become beautiful when we change our style of living.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

Don't whine. Find the positive in difficult situations.