I had no jealousy of work, no jealousy of money. I was just jealous of women who took advantage of men, because I didn't know how to do it.

Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know.

To write you into poems, and make you unerasable.

Stop what you are doing. Go outside and breathe. The world will not end if you take ten minutes for yourself.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself.

What if nothing needs to change other than our perception of what we see?

I think it's kind of written in stone that men are supposed to have strong feelings about age, but I've never really thought about it.

Do people on food stamps actually need more movies to watch? Well, I'm probably treading dangerously close to the line of insensitivity, right?

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.