I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

I like your mind when it plays with mine. We harmonize, like a dirty sweet symphony.

All our sentiments - religious, romantic or any other - are born in the neurons.

There is such a thing as too much couth.

A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.

I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

God gave me my money.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath.

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.