I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I’d never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman...

He kisses me back with a kiss like a smile.

The promise of a kiss will carry us forward.

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

Time lost can never be regained

Complaining from lack of food doesn't always affect my emotions. complaining from lack of knowledge, passion, creative ideas and happiness always does.

... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you.

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.

The new season will be all about scoring more goals than the opposition.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.