I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.