It's terrific, Clare, " Henry says, and we stare at each other, and I think, "Don't leave me.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense 'I have your back' bonds.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully.

Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

I forgot how much I loved going to class, actually. But I also forgot what having school homework feels like: stressful!

I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.