She loved him, though not at this particular moment.

...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.

The acquiring of intelligence doesn't require an institution if you got the heart to seek knowledge, and the balls to use it as wisely as those who came before you.

When is it too right but too wrong to be right?

All the horror is in just this -- that there is no horror. . . .

I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.

I don't think humans are meant to be looked at when we're buying pants.