I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.

Democratic government needs parties

The Church is not merely a hospital or a halfway house to check in and out for weekend visits.

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it.

Color transmits and translates emotion.

All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.