Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

I am too full of lifeto be half-loved.

Your dreams become your destiny when your plans become your actions!

When I walk in the front door after a shift, Lucy, I want your mouth on mine before I even get my jacket off

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

I would agree if the race were today, most likely, our nominee would be Donald Trump, but it isn't today.

I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom