She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

when we're done, I'll be where the night never stopscradling a bruise that's shaped like youwondering why sleep never came to mewondering how I still dreamed

A person that only looks to benefit from other people, usually ends up alone.

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate.

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

When I would go on stage I would start to feel that the eyes that watching me weren't kind. And it took me a while to realize that those eyes were my own eyes.

If money or military might would change that part of the world... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough.

It is production that creates purchasing power, not the printing press!

Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned.