She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.

Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.

Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.

I sometimes wondered why I even answered the phone, but I guess I always had the hope that it would be someone else, some other way of life calling for me.

The way children stretch time and the way adults forget that stretch could be one of the saddest differences in the world.

Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell?

Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.

He excused himself for a nap, and this day blended into his dreams like like years blended into a life, unseen but still felt, the line between memory and present always bleeding.

I couldn't decide how to feel about what he was saying, whether it was all nonsense or just more evidence that I would never understand this world.

But what had really happened? It was still unclear. Was it possible nothing of any significance had ever happened between us and our ending was just the sad process of realizing this?

It was possible she might not have the right feeling after all, that she wasn't in love, wasn't in limerence, but was in some unnamed place alone.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

The best was The Yardbirds. I still love The Yardbirds and The Zombies.

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

Friends are connected by their souls, you can't just rinse something out that has been deeply instilled into your sou

The great thing about getting older is living life.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes

The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about.