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.

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

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.

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.

It's weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I'm expected to be humorous on talk shows.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.

What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

You can learn to direct yourself to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening with your body.

Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.

God has given believers the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to all the world, and we need to use all at our disposal to accomplish this task.