I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Happiness is essentially a gift

I cannot squeeze the stars

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

I'm still here, I'm still alive, I'm still blessed, on my way to my destiny, because the favor of God is on my life.

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

I don't Botox. I've never Botoxed.

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

I ate the Green Monster. It tasted pretty nasty. It was pretty painful.