It's not the small of her back, her thighs, or her chest or eyes that matter most. It's the parts of her she's afraid to show that you should get to know.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

There is really nothing you gain from being a pauper rather you loose every thing.

It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people.

The shrewd hunt foxes, the strong hunt lions, but the mighty hunt elephants.

Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.