If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.

You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things--and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

Depths of Friendship...under fathoms deepof dark and bitter coldan eerie oscillationreverberated brash and bold...

As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.

I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.

Until I truly loved, I was alone.

The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.

When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help.

My body is not a tomb for animals.

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

I want to be the best, it's not about the ranking, it's about being consistent.

But this too is true: stories can save us.