So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.

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.

The strongest man survives himself.

When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution.

My mom taught me not to talk about money.

There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.

Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.

Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen

Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.

Obviously, I need to study princesses further.

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.