I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

I want to go slow, baby, I really do, " he whispered at the side of her neck. "But I'm not going to be able to this first time." "Thank heavens.

Looking for equality everywhere is a huge mistake because equals are terrible and boring. But a sense of fairness and justice is a totally different thing and a much more complex thing.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

Let me think about the people I care about.