Let her go, ” Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.

Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.

The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.

It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

Presence and AbsenceA certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence: I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

Revolution is not a one time event.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

It takes less than a decade for today's luxury to become a universal necessity.

The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.