I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

To feel alone is to be alone.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

With writing, we have second chances.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

We should keep learning so long as we have grace and breathe.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment.

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

And that's all right with me.

I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.

I've traveled the world in one of the best groups ever. I'm 42.