I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm

How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.

I wish I knew how to calibrate my kiss the way he did but passion allows us to hide more.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

We loved with every organ but the heart.

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

I am just going outside and may be some time." Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it.

Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.

I think I existed on four hours sleep a night for four years.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

You don't have to be afraid because we're all the same

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

I just get the impression that everyone is willing me to succeed.

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.