The worst losses come at night.

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.

The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.

You never know, I might get back into coaching someday.

The more things you own, the more those things own you.

Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.

I dont have aluminum foil on my windows anymore.

I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.