If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

No Brasil não há outonomas as folhas caem- In Brazil there is no autumnbut the leaves fall

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.

We have to accept that there are certain things in our life that are inescapable. These are the things that come natural to us and are necessary to our existence.

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

Most people wish to be consoled, confirmed. They want their prejudices reinforced and their structured belief systems validated. After all, it hurts to think, and it's absolute agony to think twice.

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

I threw a strop one day and threatened to walk to Budleigh Salterton.

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good.

About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them.