I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

A happy one will do her best to make you happy but a pathetic one will convert your life to a pathetic one

We have fangirl shorthand.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

But i can't let you go, " he said. "How could I let you go? I searched my heart"—he shrugged— "and I love you.

Flesh is weak, but love is strong.

I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

I leave scientists mentally scarred, Triple Extra Large, Wild like rock stars who smash guitars.

Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism.