Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

If the willingness is there, you can graciously fulfill your dream.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.

No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

Consuming is an endless treadmill.