Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Now beggars can be choosers with Cosmic Ordering.

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.