Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm

How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.

I wish I knew how to calibrate my kiss the way he did but passion allows us to hide more.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

We loved with every organ but the heart.

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

Love and intuition are both the language of the soul. Speak soul.

When you fall in love, do not fall out of yourself.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people about stuff and then hope that maybe does something.

I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!