Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

We cannot hunt for love. We can only surrender and become love’s prey.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention.

there is you and you.this is a relationship.this is the most important relationship.- home

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Romantic stuff is not something I really remember.

Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs

What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.