Jennifer had never liked the pain of remembering what had happened, but for Theo it was the pain that kept Laura alive in his memory. He was afraid that if it ever began to heal she would disappear.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

Il pessimismo radicale sconfina nell'ottimismo.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.