My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

A good book is an event in my life.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.