LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

I loved Verti. Until she jumped. That is when I felt Vertigo.

People like you must create. If you don’t create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.

I'm going to leave y'all with one thought. I'm a big believer in fate. I have a good feeling about this.

The biggest terrorist is George W. Bush.

Self-creation is the highest art.

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

I try to be as unsexy as possible.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.