No one will ever make necessity not happen.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

[Donald Trump] said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse.

Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope.

This being-nice crap was for thebirds.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.