In a time like that, the past meets you wherever you turn. The days do not use their own hours and minutes, they find ones you have lived through with the person you are missing.

In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.

Falling in love is some kind of madness.

One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.

The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...

You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - "all hat and no cattle." Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.

Do not pity the dead, Harry.

Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.

What are the questions you wish to ask?

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.