Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

I've been married twice and I've tried to make it work, but I feel I haven't had a real marriage yet.

I have no plants in my house. They won't live for me. Some of them don't even wait to die, they commit suicide.

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.