Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.