Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.

I love you. I love you all the way.

I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.

Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.

I was moving forward into space, but i would never come home again

I couldn't say, "I lost the best thing that ever happened to me." Wasn't that punishment enough?

What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

I think Kirk Johnson is a more exciting fighter than Chris Byrd. A lot of people agree with me when it comes to that.

Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.

For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.