Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

Somebody stop the world. I'm scared and I want to get off.

After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

If this enormous pressure didn't exist, I wouldn't have been elected. It would have been one of the usual candidates.

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient. Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

No violence, No competition, No Groups, No Chiefs.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.