It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.

...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...

Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.

It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?

Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.

We fit, you and I,” he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. “Two broken pieces making a whole.

Opportunities are always there for us to grow, opportunities are always there for us to come closer to each other & come closer to God; if we just look for them.

There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.