I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

Why is love intensified by absence?

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

I drive a hybrid, and we've changed our light bulbs and windows and installed solar panels and geothermal ground source heat pumps and most everything else.

Straight ahead you can't go very far.

The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.

There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence, abuse or exploitation.

I could have melted ice, my smile was so bright.

music became my refuge and then my salvation.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.