The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.

I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.

I wouldn't be your best and most marvelous friend in the galaxy if I didn’t point out there might be a few negative consequences from all…” she gazed upward and twirled her hand in the air “…this.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

Always follow your own path.

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.