Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.

A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

I love working with my hands. My writing is rough, my paper bruised with ink stains.

Beauty was all I’d ever cared for. It was all that ever moved me.

You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it’s your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.

Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio...

A major golf tournament is 40,000 sadists watching 144 masochists.

That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.