One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

I like the way you kiss-a couple of test kisses, then a huge kiss.

It’s not easy remembering the good times.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Tears are pouring down my cheeks like tiny rivers, soaking my shirt with dark patches of my salty happiness.

To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.

People will be able to judge for themselves.

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.

It wasn't the tattoo that had changed her, had given her repossession of her body. It was her actions, her choices. It was finding the path when it looked like there weren't any paths to be found.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.