The true reality is love

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

My breathe would catch at the sight of violets-so common in the woods at home, so surprising in the mountains. The violet's message was "Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in." p264

...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.... the window rosy with anemic November light.

Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

I imagined she was going to say, You killed a Minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that. Instead she said, "You drool when you sleep.

The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you.

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.

Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.