Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell, " I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good, " I said. "That's what I want too.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

It's love it's love that makes the world go round.

We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

You should learn to say nothing that will cause you regret. You should not say what is not in your heart - or what is only in your heart for a moment. But you know this - silence is better.

History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.

Day after day, we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being.

I was never a believer in decline.

There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.