I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.

I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.

Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own.

I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.

We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because it was only a dream.

Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.

I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.

With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change.

Music is music.

Sometime your only blocks are you.... Stop thinking small and play with the unlimited power you have been given.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.

Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't able to see a difference.

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Indifference breeds animosity.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.

The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.